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Late in the evening on Monday, April 23, harrowed by his defeat in the first round of the French presidential elections, the Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin stood before a distraught crowd of supporters. As he had failed to outpoll right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen for second place and a slot in the runoff against Presidential incumbent Jacques Chirac, Jospin prepared to announce his immediate resignation from French politics, saying that the strong showing of the National Front party had come “like a thunderbolt.” Yet, in many ways, that evening?...
...course, the old ISI helped create that extremist danger. Since nationhood in 1947, Pakistan has tried through war and guile to pry the remainder of Kashmir, a former princely state with a Muslim majority, away from India. Borrowing a page from the cia's proxy war?backing local mujahedin against the occupying Soviets in Afghanistan?the ISI began in 1989 to encourage Islamic militant outfits inside Pakistan to cross over the mountains and snipe at Indian troops in Kashmir. As a combat tactic, it was brilliant: on any given day, more than 300,000 Indian troops are busy chasing...
...practical level, Pakistani extremist groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammad shared terrorist camps near the Afghan towns of Khost and Kandahar with al-Qaeda, according to Western diplomats and intelligence officials in Islamabad. In turn, bin Laden's agents relied on these comrades to provide a network of safe houses for al-Qaeda agents as they crossed Pakistan on their way to and from their Afghan headquarters. The ISI also vetted new recruits and laundered terrorist funds through the hawala global network of informal money changers. Says Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia...
...someone in the ISI who knows where they're hiding." Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group to which the kidnapping suspects belonged, is under "country club" arrest at his home in Bahawalpur, a diplomat reports. Despite Musharraf's Jan. 12 ban on five extremist groups, most of their firebrand leaders were recently set free, a move that perplexed Islamabad diplomats. "We didn't have enough proof to charge them," explains a Pakistani official...
...While the ISI appears to have turned its back on the Taliban and its extremist comrades, it hasn't completely abandoned ties to militants. Activity has been suspended in the training camps that once fed the Kashmir rebellion, militants say. But the ISI seems unwilling to make an irrevocable breach with the guerrillas, in the event it later decides to rev up its clandestine support of them, according to foreign diplomats. The seven main suspects still at large in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl last January all had indirect links with the spy agency...